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- The point has to do with the final causality of the human being, not the contingent nature of particular humans. Hence the explicitly counterfactual...

Oh, it definitely is. I should know: I'm the one who wrote it. Even in a grammatical sense the sentence is a counterfactual. You're starting to sound ...

You're neck-deep in strawmen. Again: That's a counterfactual claim. I am talking about a world where babies never mature into human adults.

Okay, but do you see how this is a bit like the insanity defense? When a judge calls someone to account for their actions they might say, "I was insan...

Then you are committed to the claim that if human babies did not ever grow into human adults they would have the same value as they do given the curre...

What is your definition of "special"? I don't think it's arbitrary at all. I think I am adhering to the definition of 'special' and you are not.

Okay, great. And note that when I say "intervene," coercion is not even necessary. To simply reason with someone or ask them to stop or even distract ...

What it is is precisely something that will grow to be able to do those things.

Are humans special? Are babies human? I don't know of any other species which uses language, composes poetry, mathematizes the physical universe, deve...

The first thing I would want to say here is that "retrofit reasoning" must itself be either teleological, deontological, consequentialist, realist, no...

Incredibly important point. :up: ChatGPT is not singular source, insofar as it will answer the exact same question a hundred different ways when asked...

Okay, fair. So you would say that when you tell me that, "I will try to enforce where i am not obviously violating rights," this act of enforcement is...

Those are nice ways of explaining it. :up:

:up: As an aside, @"180 Proof"'s approach is especially helpful insofar as he is a moral naturalist (and moral realist) who is not religiously motivat...

Great post. For the sake of convenience let's call the position which says that humans have at least one universal and natural telos "teleological nat...

Okay great. I see I've opened up a can of worms with Kant, but maybe that's okay if he is really playing the role that I think he is. Quickly, I am a ...

Yeah, that's a clean way to get at it. :up: True, and I also think the left has been more proactive in pursuing cultural influence. A lot of the ideol...

@"Michael" was engaged in a (mild) strawman. The underlying question has to do with the meaning of a phrase like, "Transmen are men." See on the matte...

As says, not according to the SEP article that is being discussed. Indeed the article literally implies that extensional logic need not have substitut...

It looks as though you are retreating back to a defense you had already (wisely) , namely the defense that says, "Ah, but none of these people knew th...

That's fair, but what did we see in the wake of such things? Was there widespread support for the murderer of the Hortman's from the right? Heck we ev...

That's a good question. Yes. I was referring to the example of the murder of Charlie Kirk. Another recent case was the murder of Brian Thompson. I'll ...

I agree. I think it counts as moral realism, at least as long as the goal of harmony and well-being for the greatest number is held as normative. The ...

- Indeed. :up:

It is a premise. (2) follows from (1) with another tacit premise; (4) follows from (2) and (3). I will add an edit to make this clear.

Right: I would say that the right is more tolerant and the left is more empathetic. The left is also more disagreeable (e.g. murdering people for spee...

Here are some of the tacit steps: 1. "Transwomen are women" means that biological males who identify as women are feminine (or female-gendered) {Premi...

If you want to be propositional about it then your rational error lies in this: 1. "Transwomen are women" means that biological men who identify as wo...

This is like saying, "We were never sure whether men's sports like wrestling/boxing/MMA excluded biological females or gendered females." That positio...

- The whole issue has to do with the claim that trans activism involves itself in contradictory or illogical positions. So if you take one premise of ...

This is admirably clear, but do you really believe it? The activist means something like, "This human being who says that he is a man should be viewed...

Sure thing. :up: Right, and the second article of the OP is related to this problem. There are two other places which are good references for this que...

And perhaps more pointed is the fact that such cultures have certainly existed. If morality is just intersubjective agreement then you have a form of ...

Okay, great. As I said, I'm interested in talking to people, not interacting with ideologies that they may or may not hold. I would rather talk about ...

No worries. My point about hypothetical vs. non-hypothetical imperatives or ought-judgments could also be revised in relation to this: So, as above, y...

Wouldn't you say that there is a sense in which Marxist or Marxist-inspired ideologies are supposed to be based on compassion for the victim or the op...

Just as a preliminary point, I don't think I've ever said anything like that. I don't even know what "foundationalism" or "anti-foundationalism" are s...

But it seems that you do see it, at least in part, with claims like these: But I will merge any reply I have here into your new thread on the topic.

Paine, here is the question I asked and you deferred, claiming that you would answer it in time: Is that the question you were attempting to answer? Y...

Your quote of Menzel follows directly on this premise. Note: For Menzel the whole issue has to do with attempting to turn something that is prima faci...

Yep. :up: --- Modern logic is built on the foundation of set theory (cf. SEP - Emergence of First-Order Logic), and therefore its ability to translate...

Logic is actually not content neutral, although there are lots of folks on TPF who refuse to admit this. Heck, if logic were content neutral then logi...

In my late teens I was not yet a Christian but I was reading C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. His arguments made me realize that I had to choose betwee...

I think 'fact' is a word that hinders rather than helps in these discussions. All that is required for what I've said is that someone thinks it is tru...

I would suggest doing some historical reading on the ways that different cultures used different bases. For example, "History of Bases used in Ancient...

- I thought I might be. :razz: It is worth noting that one could revise the so-called "Hume's law" as follows: One cannot get meaning from an 'is'. Su...

When someone brings up tolerance there is usually an accusation at play. There is usually the premise, "One should not be intolerant." Now it surely d...

You told me that you would answer my question after I answered a new question you had. I was just hoping you would follow through on that.

@"Wayfarer" The problem of Scientism seems more far-reaching than I had previously understood. It is very obvious in the religious sphere, it is fairl...

You provide an able and energetic response, and I think it succeeds in large part. I missed your post. For some reason I did not receive a notificatio...